Cities need a stronger voice in climate change talks
Negotiators are meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, in an effort to secure a binding agreement on global climate change. However, months after the ta...
Negotiators are meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, in an effort to secure a binding agreement on global climate change. However, months after the ta...
Dex Torricke-Barton | Posted 05.25.2011
Officials in Copenhagen will probably ink a new agreement calling for reductions in global CO2 emissions. But even if the delegates achieve this outcome, it is likely that there will be little to cheer.
Engelina Jaspers | Posted 05.25.2011
As the UN Climate Change Convention closes its first week in Copenhagen, HP is in attendance to support our global leaders as they work towards an agreement on the reduction of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
Regina Hopper | Posted 05.25.2011
As our nation looks to establish its bona fides on clean energy, while putting Americans back to work, one often overlooked domestic resource stands abundantly ready to make a difference: natural gas.
Andrew Guzman | Posted 05.25.2011
The conventional view in policy circles is that climate change will cost the U.S. somewhere between 0 and 2 percent of GDP by the year 2100. But a more thorough accounting points to a much heavier price.
Jeff Gibbs | Posted 05.25.2011
Ironically, as delegates in Copenhagen are ramping up efforts to preserve forests globally to slow global warming, a technology having the opposite effect is poised to wreak havoc on forests around the world.
Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011
It is ironic, bordering on the bizarre, that agriculture merits so little attention in the climate change agreement to be finalized at this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
David Gershon | Posted 05.25.2011
The political leaders of the world that gathered in Copenhagen had the unenviable responsibility of forging a strategy to pull humankind back from the brink of a dire future.
Dr. Ana Langer | Posted 05.25.2011
As the global architects of a new treaty to combat climate change meet in Copenhagen, they continue to work from a conspicuously incomplete blueprint. It's not too late to draft a new blueprint.
Dilma Rousseff | Posted 05.25.2011
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is a moment that challenges us and history. The global warming crisis requires robust, concerted and conscientious responses from all governments.
Mother Jones | David Corn | Posted 05.25.2011
Is the Obama administration giving up on reaching a comprehensive international climate change agreement this year? A statement released on Friday by ...
Marcelo Ebrard | Posted 05.25.2011